Archives - 09 July 2017, Sunday

WASHINGTON — The congressional midterm elections are still 16 months away, but that hasn’t stopped a growing number of Democratic candidates with military experience from starting their bids for office. “So many veterans are reaching out to us now, we have to start early,” said Jon So...

KADENA AIR BASE, Japan -- KADENA AIR BASE, Japan – U.S. Marines and Airmen conducted the first ever joint forward area refueling point exercise involving the F-35B Lighting II June 26, at Kadena Air Base, Japan. The two-day exercise enabled the U.S. Air Force and Marine Corps to impro...

Hay’at Tahrir al Sham (the “Assembly for the Liberation of the Levant,” or HTS), an insurgent coalition of several groups, claims to have launched security operations targeting Islamic State cells throughout the Syrian province of Idlib. Earlier today, the jihadist joint venture, whic...

But Mulvaney’s assertion that the Navy didn’t want the ships was catnip for LCS critics on Capitol Hill, who pounced on it and the rapid reversal of the Navy's initial budget request support for just one LCS. During the House Armed Services Committee markup of the 2018 National Defens...

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The Army is expanding opportunities for soldiers to participate in its Career Intermission Pilot Program, according to a new directive from the secretary of the Army. Congress authorized the program in 2009 as a retention incentive for all the services, which were given the option to ...

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Indian Army a name that makes me feel proud every time I pronounce it. Just like me, many out there who love their country have immense respect for those who are guarding our frontiers. These brave hearts work day and night to serve the nation on the border and make us sleep peacefull...

With respect to the conduct of interrogation, some international law rules are only applicable as a matter of law in times of armed conflict, that is to say that IHL is normally only applicable in the case of a factual armed conflict. Further, some rules are applicable only in the cas...

President Donald Trump retrieved a Marine's cover that had blown off while he boarded Marine One at Joint Base Andrews on Saturday. According to ABC News , Trump had just returned from attending the G-20 Summit in Germany aboard Air Force One when he came across the Marine's cover. Tr...

India is actively trying to join the export control regimes, the Wassenaar Arrangement and Australia Group, notwithstanding China's attempts to stonewall its bid to enter the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG). An official said work on applying for a membership of the Wassenaar Arrangement...

Even standing still in the bitterly cold and windswept Doklam plateau, which is being lashed by periodic sharp showers now, will tax the fittest of men. At that altitude (more than 16,500 feet), oxygen is rare and breathing takes work; many layers of clothing are never enough to ward ...

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean state media have sharply criticized a recent practice bombing run by two U.S. B-1B bombers on the Korean Peninsula, calling it a dangerous move raising the risk of nuclear war. A commentary Sunday in the ruling party's Rodong Sinmun newspaper accused ...

FORT DRUM, N.Y. -- Selfless service. It is not just an Army value for Soldiers -- it is the driving force behind their every action. Their dedication to their battle buddies and to the mission is so deeply rooted that it can sometimes be difficult for an ill or injured Soldier to paus...

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HAMBURG, Germany — President Donald Trump said Saturday the U.S. would contribute $50 million to a new World Bank fund conceived by his daughter that aims to help women entrepreneurs access capital and other support. Ivanka Trump joined World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim on the s...

CHICAGO, July 8, 2017 — Medically retired Army Sgt. Jhoonar Barrera sank a free throw with 23.5 seconds remaining on the clock to seal a 56-55 Army victory over Navy in the wheelchair basketball final at the United Center here yesterday during the 2017 Department of Defense Warrior Ga...

The pair of B-1B Lancer strategic bombers flew from a U.S. base on Guam and were joined by U.S. and South Korean jet fighters to conduct the simulated destruction of an enemy ballistic missile launcher and underground facilities, the South's air force said. North Korea announced on Tu...

JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii -- As part of the continuing demonstration of the ironclad U.S. commitment to our allies against the growing threat from North Korea’s ballistic missile and nuclear programs, two U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer bombers from Andersen Air Force Base, Gu...

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and its member States and Ukraine, hereinafter referred to as NATO and Ukraine, building on a political commitment at the highest level; recognizing the fundamental changes in the security environment in Europe which have inseparably linke...

CHICAGO (NNS) -- After all the fanfare, the crowds and the cameras, Team Navy joined their fellow competitors July 8 at a small event at Navy Pier in Chicago to celebrate the conclusion of the 2017 Department of Defense Warrior Games, hosted by the Navy. The event was closed to the pu...

As much as the U.S. mainstream media want people to believe that they are the Guardian of Truth, they are actually lost in a wilderness of propaganda and falsehoods, a dangerous land of delusion that is putting the future of humankind at risk as tension escalate with nuclear-armed Rus...

BEIRUT — An open-ended cease-fire in southern Syria brokered by the United States, Russia, and Jordan came into effect on Sunday at noon. The agreement, announced Thursday after a meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, is the first initiative...

STRAIT OF MALACCA (July 6, 2017) Sailors sit on the bow of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) as the ship transit the Strait of Malacca. Nimitz is on deployment in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations. The U.S. Navy has patrolled the Indo-Asia Pacific routinely for more than 70...

SOUTH PACIFIC (July 4, 2017) The forward-deployed Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) conducts flight operations in the South Pacific. Ronald Reagan is on patrol in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations in support of security and stability in the Indo-Asia-Pacific...

Three years into the coalition fight against Islamic State militants, the battlefield remains fairly austere, without the major forward bases or large unit presence common to previous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Into this environment, the Marine Corps has quietly deployed several 3D...

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Vietnam and India are teaming up to tame China’s ambitions to control the South China Sea and the riches that are hidden beneath. Early this week, Vietnam granted Indian oil firm ONGC Videsh a two-year extension to explore oil block 128, according to a Reuters report. China considers ...

Dear readers, tonight with us is an irascible old drunk with a hatred of poets and a love of hats, straight out of the 17th century English Civil War. He is here to tell us of his adventures, from battlefield to bedroom, unmasking Cavalier plots, earning the enmity of the King’s agent...

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is taking initial steps to more closely enforce so-called "Buy American" laws, elevating a series of Depression-era statutes that require manufacturers to rely on U.S. materials when they make guns, equipment, uniforms and food for the nation's military. A Ju...

The manufacturer of the weaponized drones, Duke Robotics, based in northern Florida, was founded in 2014 by an Israeli military veteran who remains a reservist in the Israeli Special Forces, and if all goes according to plan, the company will attempt to interest the Pentagon in purcha...

VICENZA, Italy — The Medal of Honor has always hung heavily around Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta’s neck. On Wednesday, he finally got to take it off. In a ceremony marking the 173rd Airborne Brigade’s new memorial to all the brigade’s soldiers who earned the military’s highest award, th...

PHILADELPHIA, Penn. (Tribune News Service) — For author Mark Bowden's book, "Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War In Vietnam ," Bowden interviewed more than 100 men and women from both sides of the fighting. Below are comments from three local American veterans of the Battle ...